Are you a big sap? A softie? What scene or episode turns on the waterworks?

POSTED BY: Static
UPDATED: Thursday, August 12, 2004 03:21
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THEREALME

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:59 AM

Static, I am delighted that your story had a happy ending.

And I DO enjoy Shakespeare. LadyDisdain's alias had touched some memory, but I couldn't place the reference.

As to the softie topic, I agree with just about everything mentioned here. Aside from that jerk Tracy. Sorry, I would have spaced his dead ass and, yes, missed that beautiful, moving music at the end of Message.

But the REALLY big one for me was River's surrender in Objects in Space, the "I'll be your bounty" speech.

It actually brought a single manly tear to the right eye of The Real Me...

Just before the whimpering and blubbering started...

The Real Me

LADYDISDAIN

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:32 AM

You always end with a jade's trick... I know you of old.

Which of course I don't. Which is to say: Hi, Static, nice to meet you! *laughs*

Aaaand scene. Flourish of trumpets. I'll have to learn to keep my Shakespeare to myself, in future, I seem to get carried away... Glad we could entertain, though!

STATIC

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:38 AM

By NO MEANS should you keep your Shakespeare to yourself!

Pleased to meet you.

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YT

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:35 AM

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Originally posted by Superfly:
"The Message" really got me too, but for maybe a different reason. One, I was happy to see the little punk go, but the funeral was one more death in Mal's history. Mostly it got me cuz of that beautiful music. The composer did a really fine job on that one. The thing that really hit me though is the half a second scene where Jayne is taking off his hat in respect. It seems a little out of character, but the look on his face is pure sadness.

Along with what looks like the best snow I can remember on screen, that's pretty much the way it struck me, on first viewing. However, after watching it with the commentary track, I can't see that scene without seeing the cast bidding farewell to the story, and to each other.

That really gets to me. I can't even write about it without feeling weepy.

Keep the Shiny Side Up

Wutzon: Traffic, "Shoot Out @the Fantasy Factory"

NERVOUSPETE

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:51 AM

I'm not quite sure if anyone has mentioned this specific bit yet, which faintly surprises me.

'Out Of Gas' - When Mal has the flashback right at the end of the episode, and the music kicks in, and you hear the jovial ship dealer talk about a real beauty of a ship, and the camera backs away from him to take in Mal, and you see him looking away off camera with this utter look of love at first sight - of joy and the realisation of dreams. It's such a heart breaking look, it's so beautiful. And then you see Serenity herself, sitting there, waiting for the right crew, and in the background the voice of the ship dealer saying, "Sir? Sir? Can you hear a word I'm saying?"

And you know that every hurt and every labour Mal went through for her was of a man deeply in love.

To me that was the most emotional bit of television I've ever experienced. And I include the 'Vaughan Rice considering putting gun in mouth due to being trapped in warehouse with four hi-tech coffins containing vampires with release timers counting down to dusk in 'Ultraviolet' - which is a near perfect emotional moment on television itself.

So, yeah. That's the bit that chokes me up everytime, and the bit I spend the bulk of my time pondering in a 'what happened next, what happened just before' kind of way.

And Static, you made me kinda weepy too. Sounds like you have something truly beautiful with your wife. You're a lucky man.

Pete

"If you can keep your head whilst others... eurgh! Ack! I've spilt my ink! Ugh! Ink on my trousers! Agh! Ink on my shirt! My only hope! The window! Aieeeeee!" (Falls to death)
- Jonathan Nash

EVILTOBZ

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:01 AM

any scene with inara looking hurt or upset always pulls at the heartstrings a little bit. she reminds me of a great line from my so-called life, "you're so beautiful it hurts to look at you." it so sums up the effect she has on me. the pain in her eyes with the introduction of mal's new wife possibly gets me even more than the full on sobbing at him doing the deed with nandi.

for a specific scene though, the bit that got to me most in the entire series doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. at the end of safe, the little bit of dialogue between mal and simon that runs along the lines of:

why did you come back for us
you're on my crew
but you dont even like us
you're on my crew

that gets me as close to weeping as anything i've ever seen. big manly tears mind.

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JEDISKANKS

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:21 PM

All the scenes you guys mentioned are great, but one scene I didn't see on here was in Serenity: when Kaylee was shot and Simon is working on her, you see a shot of Jayne looking through the window, and he looks really concerned. I wouldn't say it made me teary, but I think it's a touching moment, and some nice insight into his character.

RHYMEPHILE

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:50 PM

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Originally posted by NervousPete:
*snippity* And I include the Vaughan Rice considering putting gun in mouth due to being trapped in warehouse with four hi-tech coffins containing vampires with release timers counting down to dusk in 'Ultraviolet' - which is a near perfect emotional moment on television itself. *snippity*

Hmm, I said to myself, Ultraviolet, never heard of it. It sounds super cool, so of course it's a UK show. Argh. Then I read there was a pilot made for US TV in 2001, for, of all networks, FOX, and it never made it to the air. Wow, shocker. It's doubly disappointing knowing that The X-Files vets Howard Gordon and Chip Johannessen were attached as executive producers. Sigh.

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MILORADELL

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:51 PM

So I was watching Safe last night, and when Simon and River are having the conversation about how he gave up everything and found her broken - I was crying through that whole thing! For me, Safe is always the "forgotten" episode - I always forget how good it is, and I rarely watch it. But when I do - oh man! It always surprises me for some unknown reason.

What could be more hearbreaking than watching someone who has undergone incredible trauma, and in an achingly lucid moment, they acknowledge that they are "broken?" Sigh/sob...

And I really like the lighting in it.

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Noah's Ark is a problem.

GRIMLAKIN

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:12 PM

Too many excellent scenes to name. Far far too many.

Of course the hidden or not so for the viewers feelings between Mal and Inara.

Well I'll let yall get back to your regularly scheduled diatribe. ;)

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